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FW: Panel on Iraqi Refugees and Advocacy through the Arts - NYC 2/5/08
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ImmigrantR-@afsc.org
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Jan 30, 2008 13:22 PST
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Subject: Panel on Iraqi Refugees and Advocacy through the Arts - NYC
2/5/08
Iraqi Citizens: War and Exile
A Panel Discussion
Sponsored by Human Rights First, Fordham University, and the Nailya
Alexander Gallery
The panelists will address topics including the consequences of the Iraq
war for Iraqis - more than 4 million of whom have fled their homes - the
potential for visual artists to bring public attention to human rights
issues, and the relationship between visual arts, human rights advocacy,
and policy change. A question-and-answer session will follow.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 7 to 9 pm, at Fordham University Lincoln
Center, 113 W. 60th St. (at Columbus Ave.), Rm 816
Moderator: Fred Ritchin
Panelists: Lori Grinker, Amelia Templeton, Nour Al-khal and Matisse
Bustos Hawkes
Limited seating. RSVP by Monday, February 4, to
marti-@humanrightsfirst.org
Fred Ritchin is a professor of Photography and Imaging at New York
University's Tisch School of the Arts. He was picture editor of The New
York Times Magazine (1978-82) and founding director of the
Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Program at the International
Center of Photography (1983-86). He is the author of several books, and
director of PixelPress, an organization working at the intersection of
new media, human rights and documentary. [www.pixelpress.org]
Nour Al-khal was a translator in Iraq who worked with the journalist
Steven Vincent in Iraq. She was forced to flee to the U.S. and now works
for the Steven Vincent Foundation in New York City.
[www.stevenvincentfoundation.org]
<http://www.stevenvincentfoundation.org%5d/>
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
<http://www.witness.org/index.php?option=com_witnesscontact&task=view&co
ntact_id=7&Itemid=101> is Communications and Outreach Coordinator at
WITNESS. She spent two years as the publicist at Aperture, the fine
photography foundation. She later worked as Outreach Coordinator for
PixelPress, where she co-managed projects such as "The End of Polio,"
with UNICEF and the World Health Organization, which featured the work
of world-renowned photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado. [www.witness.org]
Lori Grinker is an award-winning photographer represented by Contact
Press Images, and author of Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict.
Her new exhibition and multimedia piece, at the Nailya Alexander Gallery
from January 9 through February 16, 2008, tells the stories of Iraqi
refugees and wounded in Amman. [www.lorigrinker.com]
Amelia Templeton works in the Refugee Protection Program at Human Rights
First for the Lifeline for Iraqi Refugees Project. Her advocacy focuses
on advancing policy solutions to address the plight of refugees who have
been forced to flee Iraq or are displaced within the country. While a
student at Swarthmore College, Amelia helped found War News Radio, a
weekly program featuring first-hand and civilian accounts of the Iraq
War and broadcast by 50 NPR affiliates nationwide.
[http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/asylum/lifeline/index.asp]
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